I definitely do not agree. Then again, if it were up to me, there would have been five cards banned today, and a handful of unbans.
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Magic: the Gathering |OT| Ravnica Allegiance - These 5 Lands Will SHOCK You!
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I wonder if something new crops up with Opal-Stirrings-Sai now. Maybe the Whir prison decks get more popular? Those three cards are so powerful that I feel like there's still abuse potential there
I'm convinced it will be unbanned in the first half of 2019.
Things have changed. BBE and Jace were unbanned last year, and there's no reality where SFM is more unfair than Jace.
Wait I don't follow Modern much, what does this mean?
Just what exactly do Ironworks decks do?
Long story short, abuse the fact that mana abilities exist outside of the stack and cannot be countered. So, they create mana out of sacrificing an artifact and in response, adds even more shit on top of the stack due to sacrifice/dying effects nullifying any attempt at disrupting or interacting with any piece of the combo. Like, they can always move around any piece in response of your spells and by the time your disruption resolves, the target is no longer valid.
Have Opals really gone down much? From what I saw, it was a tiny drop.
They can literally stick it in any sort of supplemental product moving forward.
For those interested, I reviewed Brandon Sanderson's Children of the Nameless for Tor.com: https://www.tor.com/2019/01/21/book-reviews-children-of-the-nameless-by-brandon-sanderson/
The review's angled more toward Sanderson fans/non-MTG players, but I still came away really impressed with Sanderson's efforts—he's an obvious fit for the IP—and wish there were more opportunity for him to write about Davriel.
The review's angled more toward Sanderson fans/non-MTG players, but I still came away really impressed with Sanderson's efforts—he's an obvious fit for the IP—and wish there were more opportunity for him to write about Davriel.
I'm gonna read that in a bit Aidan, the excerpt is interesting.
Unrelated, you know what I find interesting? We still don't have any details on what's going to follow the next set. I feel like by now we have something, even a name from leaks, don't we? Am I misremembering?
Unrelated, you know what I find interesting? We still don't have any details on what's going to follow the next set. I feel like by now we have something, even a name from leaks, don't we? Am I misremembering?
If I'm playing Arena at home against someone who plays slow as shit (ie, everyone) I can talk mad shit about them non-stop to pass the time.
It's slightly discouraged in person.
Thanks, man.
And, yeah, it feels like we're totally in the dark about the fall set/post-Bolas stuff. I expect they don't want to give ANYTHING away that might spoil the outcome of the Bolas fight, though. I also expect a major tonal shift for the story going forward—which could start with whatever's in the Core set slot (whether that's a core set or something supplemental.)
Given how much Maro loves his cape stories, I have to wonder if Bolas gets his Thanos snap moment.
I'm just waiting for it to turn into a Roseanne spinoff.
Hi do you like winning in like 2 minute
//Creatures
2 Vicious Conquistador
4 Gutterbones
4 Fanatical Firebrand
4 Rix Maadi Reveler
4 Goblin Instigator
4 Fireblade Artist
4 Judith, the Scourge Diva
4 Spawn of Mayhem
//Spells
4 Skewer the Critics
4 Lightning Strike
//Land
4 Blood Crypt
4 Dragonskull Summit
8 Swamp
6 Mountain
//Creatures
2 Vicious Conquistador
4 Gutterbones
4 Fanatical Firebrand
4 Rix Maadi Reveler
4 Goblin Instigator
4 Fireblade Artist
4 Judith, the Scourge Diva
4 Spawn of Mayhem
//Spells
4 Skewer the Critics
4 Lightning Strike
//Land
4 Blood Crypt
4 Dragonskull Summit
8 Swamp
6 Mountain
You know the worst thing? Each KCI turn can take up to 15 minutes, especially on inexperienced hands, so you can guess what happens in tournaments that have 1 hour rounds and "just" 5 additional tiebreak rounds after time's up.
I thought there was a Chandra comic set after Ravnica? So Chandra makes it out of there unsurprisingly, unless there's no comic and I made it up.
People hoping for any standard ban were living in dreamland, it would be playdesign admitting they're useless, which they aren't though I question why we needed the bolt but ok.
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if those decks start to suck, SFM will be banned asap.
buy! buy! buy!
Yeah, though I disagree that those decks actually want SFM at all.
I was theorycrafting similar lists in my head during reveal season. But I was thinking you would want more burn in it. Fewer creatures.
I like critters. I also think Gutterbones+Fireblade Artist gives you some great inevitability if you run out of cards, so I didn't want to give up the black.
Not sure if this has been posted elsewhere in the thread but WotC is beta testing bo1 paper "Quick Drafts" at certain stores in February:
I honestly don't think WotC understands what they are doing. This seemingly small change for time convenience will have huge ripple effects if adopted for competitive events. I can't even fathom how standard deck building would change if you get a free mulligan every game. Hopefully this is just a change for FNM which has always been about casual players and advertising after all. There must be ways to attract more players that don't include messing with the foundations of a nearly 30 year old time-tested game.
I honestly don't think WotC understands what they are doing. This seemingly small change for time convenience will have huge ripple effects if adopted for competitive events. I can't even fathom how standard deck building would change if you get a free mulligan every game. Hopefully this is just a change for FNM which has always been about casual players and advertising after all. There must be ways to attract more players that don't include messing with the foundations of a nearly 30 year old time-tested game.
Not sure if this has been posted elsewhere in the thread but WotC is beta testing bo1 paper "Quick Drafts" at certain stores in February:
I honestly don't think WotC understands what they are doing. This seemingly small change for time convenience will have huge ripple effects if adopted for competitive events. I can't even fathom how standard deck building would change if you get a free mulligan every game. Hopefully this is just a change for FNM which has always been about casual players and advertising after all. There must be ways to attract more players that don't include messing with the foundations of a nearly 30 year old time-tested game.
Just have people do mono red/teferi decks at all these events. Once they realize how fucked up it is theyll put a stop to it.
this is two-three weeks old.Not sure if this has been posted elsewhere in the thread but WotC is beta testing bo1 paper "Quick Drafts" at certain stores in February:
I honestly don't think WotC understands what they are doing. This seemingly small change for time convenience will have huge ripple effects if adopted for competitive events. I can't even fathom how standard deck building would change if you get a free mulligan every game. Hopefully this is just a change for FNM which has always been about casual players and advertising after all. There must be ways to attract more players that don't include messing with the foundations of a nearly 30 year old time-tested game.
This was already brought up and discussed a couple weeks ago. They already clarified that there is no desire to do Bo1 at Comp REL. They've only floated the possibility for Paper Drafts at this time and they even expanded Arena to include Bo3 Ranked after they announced this. They're just doing testing right now and haven't made any major announcements that anything is actually changing so there's no need to crazy right now.
How're you getting up to an 8 mana spell on turn 4? Elves and Incubation Druids?
Probably with some help of Growth Spiral but it still pretty much requires the nut hand. You still need to find a way to get a counter on the druid if you want it to work as intended, which means Rhythm of the Wild should be in the starting hand as well.
I thought on it more, and i assume it uses Wilderness Reclamation. Since if you get that out turn 3 from an Elf, in your end step you can tap your lands to float the mana, then untap em, tap em again and cast Electrodominance for X = 6.
Exactly. I didn't have an elf but Growth Spiral though. With elf you don't have enough mana for reclamation to have 8 mana on turn 4.
So you still need quite some cards, namely Spiral Growth, Wilderness Reclamation, Niv and Electrodominance. But even if you only get it out turn 5 or 6 it's still a really damn good temp play since you not only get Niv out but shoot 6 damage as well. And you do that surprisingly often because you play Growth Spiral, Precognitive Perception, Search for Ascanta and Chemister's Insight to get to the stuff you need.
Oh, and if you got wilderness out and an explosion on hand you basically won as well lol.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articl...gic-tournament-rules-release-notes-2019-01-21
https://blogs.magicjudges.org/telliott/2019/01/21/policy-changes-for-ravnica-allegiance/
Oh neat, players won't get DQed anymore just for suggesting that you flip a coin to decide a game or saying something that could be construed as bribery. If they didn't know it was wrong it's a match loss, which still sucks, but hey, you'll learn your lesson and won't be out of the entire tournament like you would've been last month. (If you reasonably did know you can't do that, you still get DQed.)
Also the opponent who heard the thing doesn't equally get punished anymore if they don't call a judge. Though this is a little weird since it makes offering that kind of thing "safer" in a way.
There's also some stuff about loops.
https://blogs.magicjudges.org/telliott/2019/01/21/policy-changes-for-ravnica-allegiance/
Oh neat, players won't get DQed anymore just for suggesting that you flip a coin to decide a game or saying something that could be construed as bribery. If they didn't know it was wrong it's a match loss, which still sucks, but hey, you'll learn your lesson and won't be out of the entire tournament like you would've been last month. (If you reasonably did know you can't do that, you still get DQed.)
Also the opponent who heard the thing doesn't equally get punished anymore if they don't call a judge. Though this is a little weird since it makes offering that kind of thing "safer" in a way.
There's also some stuff about loops.
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